On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:56:55 +1300 (NZDT), Pieter De Wit wrote:
The open source solution I was thinking of would add a "bit" of work to your current Linux/Unix admins. Getting the grips with an application is, imho, 100 times easier than learning something from scratch.
In a few words, what did you have in mind? I've looked at a few systems in the past and none of them really met my requirements for 'transparentness'. Squid w/ TPROXY support is close to OK, but it still does expectation-breaking things like returning squid-generated failure pages in some situations. I've definitely not come across anything with the kind of level of sophistication of say, TCL's transparent proxy which (correct me if I'm wrong) seems not to jump in unless it's pretty sure you're doing HTTP on port 80. Kudos to them for putting in a minimally invasive system. -- -Michael Fincham System Administrator, Unleash www.unleash.co.nz